shatter
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 碎片，粉碎，落叶，喷洒
- vt.
- 打碎，使散开，粉碎，破坏
- vi.
- 粉碎，损坏，脱落
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
释义（英文）
动词 Verb
- (ergative) Of brittle solid materials (like glass or ice), to violently break into pieces.
- (transitive) To destroy, disable.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse